the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

and it doesn't make sense that seemingly no one has been after nearly a month.

The disciplinary process seems incredibly bureaucratic and hopefully this is something Formby can change.

They probably have to follow procedure to avoid the risk of legal challenges esp in cases like this where they don’t want things dragging on and on.

*blinks* pic.twitter.com/4ZEpAN3RfF

— taisie (@TaisieT) April 27, 2018

'i've never seen a study of this effect'

jings, i wonder why

lolico getting into race science via jordan peterson is... something i guess

I'm sorry for bringing that cursed name to this thread, but it is sure something!

Hello, please have this GIF of Peter Hitchens losing an award to Matthew Parris pic.twitter.com/uRNPhy5Pr8

— Thomas Colson (@tpgcolson) April 26, 2018

tfw the other bald man wins the comb

Wadsworth being charged with bringing the party into disrepute rather than antisemitism directly. Clear as mud.

His outburst pretty much ruined a launch event and ensured hostile media talked about that and not the Chakrabati Report. He could have made all the same points and observations afterward (it is not antisemitic to say an MP appears to be a contact of a Telegraph reporter) without starting a row that did bring Labour into disrepute.

Chris Williamson is a total idiot + liability and it is only matter of time before he says something idiotic on RT or summat. Somebody put a muzzle on him at least until May 3rd has passed.

Amber Rudd's bad fortnight continues
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/amber-rudd-was-told-about-migrant-removal-targets-leak-reveals

is there a full transcript online anywhere of what Wadsworth actually said at the Chakrabarti Inquiry event? There's a clip of some of it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHv3D7g4RH4

this is the description on Wadsworth's wiki page

At a launch, to which the media were invited, on 30 June 2016 for the publication of the Chakrabarti Inquiry report into allegations of antisemitism and racism in the Labour Party, Daily Telegraph journalist Kate McCann questioned Jeremy Corbyn about a "Momentum member" handing out a "leaflet" calling for the deselection of anti-Corbyn MPs. Wadsworth had earlier given McCann a copy of his "press release" at her request. In response to the question about him, Wadsworth responded by publicly stating that he saw the Telegraph journalist handing a copy of the press release to Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, and thus claimed to have spotted who was "working hand in hand", a reference to anti-Corbyn Labour MPs colluding with the right-wing press.

Most of Wadsworth's brief comments, captured on a minute-long widely publicised video, were about the under-representation of Africans, Caribbeans and Asians at the launch, about which Corbyn told the meeting he agreed.

handing out leaflets at this event calling for deselection probably not helpful, but it seems unfair to characterise this as an 'outburst' - I think Wadsworth is entitled to reply to the comments made by McCann, and entitled to make the point about the lack of black people at the event, given that the terms of reference for the Chakrabarti Inquiry were explicitly to look at all forms of racism, not just anti-semitism. imo setting the inquiry up this was a mistake, and as many ppl said at the time Corbyn should have set up a report looking exclusively at anti-semitism in Labour, extending the brief to all forms of racism just looked like an attempt to muddy the waters, but given that he didn't Wadsworth had every right to make the points he did. Unless there's something that I'm missing, it seems like Wadsworth has been treated in a pretty shabby fasion here? (are there other examples of him saying or doing anything problematic apart from this incident at the report launch)

there seems to be something dubious and implicitly racist about the way a number of accounts of this describe Wadsworth as behaving in an 'aggressive' or 'threatening' manner, which don't really seem to be borne out by the evidence

xp should say "imo setting the inquiry up this WAY was a mistake"

there have only ever been about four names for european kings, regardless of country

charles
philip
louis
henry

in england you can add in james and george

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), 27. april 2018 12:25 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on!

lol

i'm not counting the palatinate dawg

So what price Rudd resigning and being replaced by a returning...Patel? Too soon? Can't go on "holiday" abroad if you're the Home Sec! /smartguyjpeg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DburcEqX4AA2GGT.jpg

Much too soon, I’d guess.

iirc she misled May as well as the press initially, or that was the line they took.

In my defence it legit feels like several years have passed since Patel agreed to resign.

It really does.

being talked up as a future Tory leader prospect is almost a guarantee your political career is fucked these days!

Whitehall source: “Permanent Secretary at home office speaking with senior officials. Likely changing of the guard.”

— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) April 27, 2018

There isn't much bench strength right now is there? Unless she's going to promote Javid or Esther McV. Or (fucking hell) Gove or Hunt.

I don't think Esther will be moving anywhere else soon, not while the DWP has become the Zone Rouge of departments that nobody wants and if you are already completely toxic like her, there is no rep to protect.

Javid sounds credible.

2/4 I wasn't aware of specific removal targets. I accept I should have been and I'm sorry that I wasn't.

— Amber Rudd MP (@AmberRuddHR) April 27, 2018

Add “thread tweets” to the list of things Rudd is incapable of.

Rudd stays then, another frigging water bear that would literally have to self immolate to lose her job!

xp just noticed what you meant, lol!

the whip should be withdrawn from John Woodcock. Anyone in Labour sharing common ground with Rudd is in the wrong fucking party to start with.

at a time when they should be hammering the opposition and drawing blood, this twat says "steady on, we've got a lot of common ground with this racist grotesque Tory".

“You get people who are on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside. They’re not moving down here to get a job, they’re moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink.”

shoot the bastard

i dunno you hear a lot of hardworking families, heterosexual working class nuclear families, straight white honest godfearing police loving families who say things like that. that's the Labour core. that's the heart. we can't betray these people with shit like welfare states and taxing the rich. they just want to see wasters and druggies hanged. that's what Labout stands for. that's what the Party's always been about. while i'm on, nuke Damascus.

https://res.cloudinary.com/labour-party/image/fetch/w_300,h_300,c_thumb,g_face/https://donation.labour.org.uk/page/file/1464591fba3bfa8495_ldm6i253a.jpg

39 years old. This is what having a black poisonous spiteful heart does to you, kids.

It was a Rudd quote but I dare say JW wouldn't disagree with her type of hateful spiel against the poor stuff.

Last month he was threatening to resign the whip and become an independent, alas Chukka must have give him a pep talk.

John Woodcock has urged fellow Labour MPs to back military action in Syria

John Woodcock is planning to resign the Labour whip in protest at the party's direction under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

Labour has more common ground with [Amber Rudd] than so many of her potential successors - we should be careful what we wish for.

John Woodcock met the king of Saudi Arabia as he led a Labour fact finding mission to the country

Woodcock, the Labour and Co-operative MP for Barrow and Furness, has previously praised Turkey’s ‘fight against extremism’, and called on other Labour figures to show more understanding and support towards the Turkish state.

I am not going to be bullied by anyone in pointing out that describing Israel as a ‘cess pit’ is rather extreme (as is wanting to ‘f- capitalism’)

resisted the mildly dyspeptic urge to post something trenchant about Alfie Evans on Facebook but glad that the boy is at peace i guess

xp
people like JW have completely stopped even trying the faux "Labour family" party of opposition game, not even pretending anymore!

like political zombies really, they need putting out of their misery.

I hate how much space and time the BBC have devoted to Alfie Evans, it's not a test case, the attention has proved to be entirely destructive, the facts of the case appear to be fairly cut and dry, yet they still seem to think they are acting in the public interest by leading with it for days on end.

A lot of people still don't seem to know that children have rights. Gotta pander to someone.

I am quite good at filtering out these grotesque media carnivals of exploited human misery, don't watch Bake Off either!

How about our friends from @StreathamRovers with this glorious design? pic.twitter.com/H75o19DiF9

— Classic Football CFS (@classicshirts) April 28, 2018

Leeds Utd's next kit sponsor perhaps?

oops wrong thread!

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/00ff48451c5a53a05066c586ffff17eccaf39a31/0_161_3200_1920/master/3200.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=ca393b90734254cb701c5d94567eab8f9

paw broon's got toothache again

https://i.pinimg.com/170x/4a/25/1c/4a251c05b0e25768999d788eb5829bba.jpg

Nice FT piece talking about Momentum - try this to get you around the paywall:

Ben Judah on Corbyn's digital revolutionaries - inside Novara media and Momentum https://t.co/TToQ5ewO5n

— Life & Arts (@FTLifeArts) April 27, 2018